8-letter words containing k, s, t, a
- haystack — a stack of hay with a conical or ridged top, built up in the mowed field so as to prevent the accumulation of moisture and promote drying.
- heatsink — Alternative spelling of heat sink.
- hotcakes — Plural form of hotcake.
- hrvatska — Croatian name of Croatia.
- inkstand — a small stand, usually on a desk, for holding ink, pens, etc.
- jackpots — Plural form of jackpot.
- jackshit — Alternative spelling of jack shit.
- jackstay — a rod or batten, following a yard, gaff, or boom, to which one edge of a sail is bent.
- jetpacks — Plural form of jetpack.
- kaapstad — Afrikaans name of Cape Town.
- kalathos — a fruit basket having a conventionalized shape of a lily, often used in ancient art as a symbol of fertility.
- kallisto — Callisto (def 1).
- karlstad — a city in S Sweden.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- kashruth — the body of dietary laws prescribed for Jews: an observer of kashruth.
- katalase — catalase.
- katalyst — catalyst.
- kathisma — one of the 20 divisions of the Psalter in the Greek rite.
- katsuras — Plural form of katsura.
- katydids — Plural form of katydid.
- katyusha — Alternative case form of Katyusha.
- kazatsky — kazachok.
- keratose — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- khanates — Plural form of khanate.
- kibitkas — Plural form of kibitka.
- kistvaen — cist2 .
- kitasato — Shibasaburo [shee-bah-sah-boo-raw] /ʃiˈbɑ sɑˈbu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1931, Japanese bacteriologist.
- kitharas — a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of an elaborate wooden soundbox having two arms connected by a yoke to which the upper ends of the strings are attached.
- klatches — Plural form of klatch.
- konstanz — German name of Constance.
- kostroma — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow, on the Volga.
- kristeva — Julia, born 1941, French literary theorist, critic, and psychoanalyst, born in Bulgaria.
- kristina — a female given name, form of Christina.
- kumquats — Plural form of kumquat.
- kustanai — a city in N Kazakhstan, on the Tobol river.
- leakiest — Superlative form of leaky.
- lisptalk — "Concurrent Programming Language Lisptalk", C. Li, SIGPLAN Notices 23(4):71-80 (Apr 1988).
- lockfast — (Scottish) Fastened or secured with a lock.
- maitakes — Plural form of maitake.
- makefast — any structure to which a ship is tied up, as a bollard or buoy.
- matsuoka — Yosuke [yaw-soo-ke] /yɔˈsu kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1946, Japanese statesman.
- mattocks — Plural form of mattock.
- meerkats — Plural form of meerkat.
- mistaken — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- mistaker — One who mistakes.
- mistakes — Plural form of mistake.
- mistrack — To track incorrectly.
- monotask — to perform one task at a time
- muskrats — Plural form of muskrat.
- nastalik — a Persian cursive script